Consoles to go 'the way of the dodo,' says Spielberg
- Posted May 20th, 2009 at 10:54 EDT by Mike Harradence
- 60 Comments
Movie legend Steven Spielberg has predicted that gaming consoles are on their way out, believing 3D gaming and virtual reality will step forward and become the "new platform for our gaming future."
Speaking during an interview with The Guardian, Spielberg said that traditional gaming platforms, just like that of old "videogame parlours,” will inevitably go “the way of the dodo bird.”
"Now we're all playing at home and someday we'll be playing directly on our TV sets, bypassing all of the platforms," he commented.
Fresh from his work on the second Bloom Blox game with Electronic Arts, Spielberg also outlined his expectations for the future, stating, "In the short term I would love to start seeing 3D games developed where with a good pair of glasses we get a real three-dimensional experience in front of an appropriate monitor that is designed just for 3D.”
"And after that, will certainly be virtual reality, which just like 3D came and went in the 1950s, and now it's here to stay in movies."
"I really think virtual reality, which experimentally came and went in the eighties, is going to be redeveloped, just like 3D is being redeveloped today, and that's going to be the new platform for our gaming future,” the director added.
Spielberg also divulged that he’s a PC gamer at heart, though also has a crack at PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 from time to time: "I get more into the microphysics of gaming, especially on the PC. I'm closer to the screen, I look for detail, I notice things more easily. The Wii platform which I adore is more of a macro experience, you know.”
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Chino2Jesus
- 11:03am BST - May 20th, 2009
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Well his stance on the Wii says it all. Fail. I do love Jurassic Park though.
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LegendaryAim |
LegendaryAim- 11:21am BST - May 20th, 2009
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Why would a MOVIE guy know anything about Gaming?
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IIIKAGEIII |
IIIKAGEIII- 11:27am BST - May 20th, 2009
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yeah because steven speilberg knows what gamers want... thats why he made boom blox. please!
stick to making your crappy movies. your gaming cred is non exsistent.
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radgamer420 |
mistercrow- 11:29am BST - May 20th, 2009
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Maybe Speiberg will go the way of the do do.
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scorpius45 |
scorpius45- 11:44am BST - May 20th, 2009
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The problem I've got with 3D glasses is that due to problems with my eyesight, things viewed through 3D glasses just look like a flat screen.
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Dave-The-Rave |
Dave-The-Rave- 11:57am BST - May 20th, 2009
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It is inevitable this is what the gaming industry is aiming for eventually. The question is how long will it take?
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re5fan
- 12:05pm BST - May 20th, 2009
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Earlier this year, Sony revealed and demoed 3D technology running on the PlayStation 3 with three separate titles (MotorStorm, WipEout HD, and GT5 Prologue). According to SCEE President David Reeves, the "PlayStation 3 is a link to 3D," adding even more value to the system.
"PS3 is a link to 3D as it is to HD and flatscreen TVs, which is why three HD games were shown at CES. You’re also going to find a number of 3D films coming out in Aug/Sept. But is there convergence in 3D technology – is there confidence? I don’t see it. So we may dip our toe in the water, not this year but possibly next," said Reeves. -
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Beast of Bourbon |
Azrael666- 12:16pm BST - May 20th, 2009
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Yeah, 3d googles for special "3d TVs".... all this in a world where most people don´t even know and care what HD means ;)
And even if virtual reality was the way to go, some box has to create this worlds.... or are they supposed to just fly out of the gamebox? hands off the "C" Stevie!
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DarkVincent07 |
DarkVincent07- 12:30pm BST - May 20th, 2009
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People are always gonna love their consoles. No matter what
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Staticneuron |
Staticneuron- 1:01pm BST - May 20th, 2009
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Is he trying to fail in every catagory? Bloom box is definetly not the pinicle of gaming and the last indiana jones killed my dreams.
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iberianpower
- 2:17pm BST - May 20th, 2009
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So 3D gaming and virtual reality are the way to go ...
And what will run that ?A console most probably .
Stop saying idiocies Spielberg ,you dont have a clue.
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lordAlucard |
Sympozium_666- 3:41pm BST - May 20th, 2009
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You know it will never happen as long till the black lord Micro$oft end there cruel dream of greed
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Alpha2
- 3:49pm BST - May 20th, 2009
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Yes mr Speilberg and we'll be playing them on MARS where the light makes the virtual reality experience feel all the more real! You're a movie producer invovled in creating fantasy ideas that can never occur realistically in life dont pretend to be an industry analyst, we have enough of those idiots as it is.
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liquidus118 |
liquidus118- 4:31pm BST - May 20th, 2009
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Virtual Reality is the logical next step I suppose, but I don't want it, if I want to play something physically I'll go and play a sport or something, not be inside flapping around like an idiot, I prefer using a controller.
You could argue that a controller is even more natural than virtual reality, because when you are using a controller you aren't conciously thinking, in a shooting game for arguements sake "I need to move the analogue stick forwards and then press x to take cover, and then hold the analogue stick up and hold R1 to shoot", if you've played games for a while you don't think that you think "I need to run to that cover and shoot the guy". From what I remember it has been shown that, if a game reacts quick enough and feels natural enough, your brain considers it an extension of your body, games like Mirrors Edge use this very well.
So please, leave movement-controlling out of my consoles, just give me a controller, a good TV, and a fun game and that's all I ask.
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IceShade |
Ice_Shade- 4:31pm BST - May 20th, 2009
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Why are you making a story about what some movie writer says about videogames? What makes him experienced in any way to discuss videogames? For Christ's sake, he owns a Wii. Not only is this a useless article, it's also poorly written. The entire PSU staff never ceases to amaze me with their epic failures.
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markwesker
- 4:32pm BST - May 20th, 2009
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well considering gaming now makes more money then the film industry i say he`s just plain wrong.3D gaming/films is just flavour of the month ,its been done be4 and the same will happen again,people cant be bothered with it.
The only thing that will stop consoles is when real 3D happens like holodecks in star trek,now thats the ultimate and it will happen just might take 50-100 years lol.
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daniels02
- 4:50pm BST - May 20th, 2009
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Actually Veyron they are a little over 83 years old.... On January 23, 1926, John Logie Baird (of Scotland) gave the world's first public demonstration of a mechanical television apparatus to approximately 40 members of the Royal Institution at his laboratory on Frith Street. These were images of living human faces, not outlines or silhouettes, with complete tonal gradations of light and shade.
http://www.tvhistory.tv/pre-1935.htm
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porkins
- 5:00pm BST - May 20th, 2009
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I think the problem is that he assumes some type of embrace of this technology by joe public because that is what it would take to make tv manufactuers include this technology in thier hardware. The future may be 3D gaming and virtual reality, however there will always be some type of "console" or add on to make this possible.
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bilbo_bobbins |
bilbo_bobbins- 5:21pm BST - May 20th, 2009
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Spielberg should go and create some more crap movies instead of guessing how the gaming market will go. Personally I can't see this 3D movement happening anytime soon, or at least within the ps3 years. Even the next thing to come after will struggle with anything thats decent.
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Intervention
- 7:06pm BST - May 20th, 2009
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They've been talking about virtual reality since video games came out. Anyone remember The Lawnmower Man or Tron. It's still not here. Spielberg hasn't made a good movie since about that time either.
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